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Unknown [Photographs of Neta Snook Southern with others]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07243.006.01 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: August 1981 Pagination: 7 photographs : color ; 9 x 12.5 cm. Order a Copy

Photographs of Neta Snook Southern accompanied by various people possibly attending a Lockheed Martin function. One of the people is identified as Carol Osborne of Lockheed Martin. Also includes a dinner ticket belonging to Snook Southern.

Anita (Neta) Snook Southern was Amelia Earhart's flight instructor from 1920 to about 1922. She began flying in 1917 and attended the Curtiss School of Aviation in New Port News, Va in 1918. After the school closed due to flying restrictions during WW I, Snook moved West to Southern California where she worked as a flight instructor and taught Amelia Earhart.

Southern, Neta Snook, 1896-1991

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